deep-dive-discussion

[acoustic hedge]

Oh ok...at least I´m solo.

[eager flame]

I do one up on that, i add the host/join them right after disconnecting so the reconnect message appears

[acoustic hedge]

It´s really rare for people in my country to play EDD together by hosting, so I´m used to hosting myself on solo.

[solar mica]

i clicked the reconnect nothing happened

[eager flame]

Huh, but you can play with people in the entire world

[solar mica]

is the issue not yet resolve?

[eager flame]

No need for them to be from your country specifically

[solar mica]

bruh thats very unfortunate

[nova hearth]

just play solo 5Head

[acoustic hedge]

Playing laggy may be an option...but my internet cable got chewed on and now I have to use an USB...

[solar mica]

uh

the rewards i got from the first dive too

its gone

no more blank matrix core

[woeful garden]

If nobody got me i know bosco got me

[eager flame]

Until you get grabbed by a cave leech

In which case bosco doesn't get you

[nova hearth]

what 2 perks do you equip above heightened senses when playing solo

[supple crest]

yes but cave leech does

[acoustic hedge]

I use dash and IW

[eager flame]

Depends on the character, Dash is a must on anything that is not scout, heightened senses and iron will are solid ones

[acoustic hedge]

Since I use engineer, Cave leeches can be spotted by the LOK-1 rifle by looking up.

[nova hearth]

fair enough

[acoustic hedge]

Not 100% garanteed since there´s that a lateral leech that will get you, but I always enter a new cave with the shredders anyways.

[eager flame]

Sideways leech is always a bitch in my book

[acoustic hedge]

True haha.

[eager flame]

But yeah, those 3 perks are the best for solo, honestly. You can make an argument of taking steeve but... eehhh

[nova hearth]

steeve always got my back along with bosco

unless its volatile guts then steeve dies way too quick

[eager flame]

Steeve solo is not that great after the aggro changes. But sure, if you feel comfortable with that perk, go for it

[acoustic hedge]

Play engineer with Beast master, shredders and gemini turrets. You will no longer feel lonely.

[eager flame]

I do that on multiplayer engie

Cleans up low life bugs really nice for your teammates

[acoustic hedge]

It can give you time for those praetorians.

[eager flame]

Yep

[acoustic hedge]

By the way, what are these "Aggro changes"?

I´m out of the loop.

[tulip idol]

I know that Steeve lures 2 enemies and he's as attractive as any other dwarf.

[nova hearth]

no idea either

[acoustic hedge]

Oh, ok.

[fathom birch]

Hi guys

where do I go to see what's on DD this week?

[candid bobcat]

check pinned message

[fathom birch]

nah, that one was from 27th April

[eager flame]

This, before, like a long time ago, he used to not pull aggro, making slasher steeve a monsters that would target bugs from behind and going to pound town with them. But now he draws aggro, so you kinda end up needing a guard steeve for him to survive long enough for the cooldown to get back up, but it doesn't pull enough bugs to be efficient at relieving pressure, he just, kinda goes off on his own, targetting whatever it feels like it, and sometimes saving you. Don't get me wrong, it is still a good perk to have, specially if you can take advantage of the small aggro he has. But it isn't an S tier perk that would save your entire mission

[candid bobcat]

(check the date inside the message )

[fathom birch]

aight thanks

[eager flame]

reads first line of the message
Yeah i ain't reading all that

[fathom birch]

[eager flame]

Have fun on your deep dives miner

[quartz otter]

Somebody TLDR me the EDD literally only tell me which mutators they have

[scarlet ravine]

lethal enemies, mactera plague, and elite threat

[quartz otter]

Thank fuck an EDD with no shield disruption or low O2 for once

[eager flame]

TLDR of the TLDR: Lethal, Mactera, Elite

[quartz otter]

The six objectives?

In order

[eager flame]

Pinned comment

[quartz otter]

oh thats neat

[eager flame]

Reninery, 2 eggs, 2 mini mules, twins, escort dotty, 150 morkite

[quartz otter]

This is the first time I've used a cheat sheet for the EDD
All previous times I go in blind for fun

[scarlet ravine]

despite being triple defend objectives my team got it done faster than last week's

[steel python]

At a glance, the EDD looks fine today

[languid rune]

Lethal Enemies Refinery and Mactera Plague Salvage is not fun

[steel python]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

The refining is stage 1 so the enemies shouldn't be that bad aside from the mutator and set spawns

And the other one can be solved with a bunker if necessary, but otherwise is not a problem either

[pliant yoke]

My first ever EDD had Mactera Plague on its first second mission

Fun times

[lethal sage]

Thanks @quiet mortar! There's also a discord bot that could help with automating this: https://boscobot.dev/

[wraith shard]

Cave leech cluster

[manic horizon]

Watch for the ceiling bugs

[grim wadi]

hungy cielings

[zenith ember]

ok too much nitra in edd

have fun for the fat boy mains

all 3 pipes are very accessible without driller (2 close)
Drop pod & box is isolated in a corner
Dotty should do some sick ass 90 degree bend into a 360 flip

[wraith shard]

has reset happened?

[alpine mauve]

just did the one of the dumbest plays
we were extracting from the final EDD stage, half the team is down, I drill to the pod, and instead of staying there as a safety net for the rest of the team, I go back and attempt to help gunner revive everyone

We didnt make it....

[eager flame]

Either we all go back together, or we all go down together

Rock and stone miner!

[tiny portal]

First time beating EDD first try

Had a good team, we all did our part

But no greybeards carrying either

[coral pond]

man i'd be so pissed if we lost an edd on stage 3 extraction cause nobody stayed in the drop pod

[tiny portal]

First stage is just prioritizing staying alive, and accepting you will have to repair 3 times. Mactera plague salvage just means you will have to get your driller and engi to build a nice bunker and your gunner will have to shield at the right moments if you threaten to get overwhelmed.

[dark fulcrum]

We dumped so much nitra into stage 2, we were struggling with the swarmers on stage three. Went into dreadnought with about half ammo on all of us with only one wait left. Fighting for like 20 mins till we made the decision to kite the dread while I, ECR LOK-1 engi went for resup for turrets ammo to deal with swarmers. Killed dread, got out after a total of an hour and twelve minutes down there

All of us went down at least 8 times during that fight

[languid rune]

that doesn't make it fun :P

[digital obsidian]

So what are the regular deep dive missions this week?

[dense pebble]

Pinned comment.

[mellow cradle]

do you guys think it would be a good idea to run engineer with explosive chemical rounds and hyper propellant on this week's EDD?
a friend will be running driller with cryo

I'm mostly concerned about the haz 5.5 flying rocks

and elites

[burnt sandal]

not updated yet nevermind that

[burnt sandal]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[uneven bronze]

Thats exactly what pins says.. isn't it?

[burnt sandal]

oh boy, I got confused because the EDD comes first in their comment

my bad 😂

[low plover]

keep in mind hyper propel works on big units only and your LOK should be able to crowd control and have plenty of ammo to balance it. What about Smart locking + fear factor?

[dense pebble]

It definitely is updated…

[uneven bronze]

all good! it happens

[dense pebble]

As for LOK I really can’t say, it doesn’t work for me that well. Too slow.

[burnt sandal]

thanks for pointing it out and correcting me

[low plover]

ye, Lok is tricky, all I can say is to experiment with combinations and to run some missions to see how it works by itself and what other equipment will be a good complementary to it

from what I remember mine explosive Lok focuses on few of enemies and makes it fast, so I have better control of how many enemies will surely explode and hurt the surrounding bugs. Fear factor will keep them away from me

[mellow cradle]

I don't really like smart targeting, as it can deny me a chance to proc explosive chemical rounds
and I never ran fear frequency, so I'm just going with 3A and 5A

[low plover]

you can always trying them out in regular missions and see how it lies in your hands

good luck 👍

[mellow cradle]

and yeah, I take the tight targeting as well

[low plover]

thats what came to my mind

[dense pebble]

I’d try it out but I’ve already got a build which is basically perfectly tuned

[mellow cradle]

what is it?

[dense pebble]

EM refire stubby and overdrive shard diff

[mellow cradle]

ah, yeah, that's good too

[dense pebble]

Its dps is so good its almost excessive

[mellow cradle]

and I have both of those oc's, but a friend will be running cryo, so idk if I want to run shard diffractor

[dense pebble]

However its ammo hungry and has no panic button

[low plover]

my argument about using my combination is - this EDD has nasty mutators, hard chompers, later plague of spitting flies, and then fast elites. You'd like to keep each of them away from you as much as possible, and fear factor could help (the more locks fired, the stronger effect)
and to make chemical rounds working, you'd like to make sure to have 3+ locks on enemies, that's why fast lock-on, maybe with tight targeting as well

[mellow cradle]

true, the fear frequency might be a good idea

oh, and the explosions have fear on them too

[low plover]

what about burning shard diffractor? You can plan to make thermal shock! Your friend will freeze them, then you will zap them (just a short blink is enough to deal great damage)
or vice versa

hehe!

I dont know how it would work on dreadnoughts tho, but I imagine this as a good combo on swarms and prets

[mellow cradle]

true, that would fare greatly on normal enemies

but shard diffractor would clash with the cryo on elites and twins, I think

[low plover]

twins as dreads take time to freeze and it lasts just for a short while
also they're itchy-bums

although you can make diffractor to deal big damage from beam itself + fire bonus to pair with your friend

[mellow cradle]

so the decision for me to make is: do I want the better flexibility of overdrive booster, or do I take hyper propellant for the insane burst with cryo

hmm

[low plover]

Hmm

Well, all main objectives are swarm focused and you have just one dreadnought in Edd. My Gut says to balance both primary and secondary between fighting single enemies and swarm wiping. Maybe primary could focus on swarms, diffractor on big units, but to not make them useless in opposite goals

You can try it on single haz 5

[mellow cradle]

I think I will try out explosive chemical rounds and overdrive booster on haz 5 as you suggest

we'll be doing the dive tommorow so I have time

thank you for the advice!

[low plover]

Glad I could help! Good luck and tell me later how it worked out!

[coral pond]

smrt mod on lok1 fucks up a lot of things

[zenith ember]

if you really trust your friend to be able to settle the mactera plague on stage 2, hyper prop is ok

since elite threat is on stage 3

idk if ecm is effective at dealing with mactera swarms

[mellow cradle]

idk either, but mactera are vulnerable to fear, and the explosions have a 50% fear chance

so I think it'll be good

[zenith ember]

its good for the most part since its a 3 stage defence

[mellow cradle]

mhmm
in that case, overdrive booster seems more and more viable xd

[coral pond]

honestly the most rounded option would just be breach cutter inferno

[zenith ember]

if you can micro flick from 1 mactera to another its prob better

[mellow cradle]

that doesn't nearly have enough burst damage as overdrive

[zenith ember]

i was thinking of suggesting breach too

[mellow cradle]

and I need the dmg for rocks and elites

[coral pond]

fuck the rocks, use your plats

[mellow cradle]

I do usually run executioner and breach cutter for EDD's, but idk about this week

[zenith ember]

honestly though with ecm lok1, i can see either of the 3 being viable

all of them can deal with high health targets

[mellow cradle]

I've seen a friend try that strategy a few times, and it never worked, lol

[zenith ember]

stack higher

[coral pond]

breach is probably the most ammo efficient option of engi secondaries to be able to deal with mactera

it's got great damage for the elite threats

and you can use plats to block the rocks from hitting doretta so you don't need to deal with them

[mellow cradle]

I'll probably have to try that strategy solo beforehand

[coral pond]

a safe spot to stand to keep adding plats(so you don't get bombed by the rocks too) is on top of the heartstone, or make a separate platform for you where you can see where to add more plats

it's nice cause, especially in multiplayer, everybody else can focus on the bugs

[strange glade]

DD seems fine this week, but how is it actually in-game

[dusk vessel]

this EDD was rough lmao

did it on first try but did have to bunker against the macteras

they were absolutely ripping into our team

[tiny portal]

Yea 2nd stage was hardest

[echo nebula]

I haven't played it yet

[woeful niche]

what is ecm

[brisk spear]

i assume they meant explosive chemical rounds

[tall meadow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/565850434376302613/1108828487516688444/20230518114726_1.jpg?width=1068&height=601

4 man EDD became 3 man because scout became a coward and left

[coral pond]

baby engi

[restive patrol]

goddamnit

another disconnect deep dive

has to be something with stage 2 doretta escort
because last week was the same problem on elite dive

https://drg.pleasefix.gg/projects/DEEP-ROCK-GALACTIC/issues/DRG-796

at least u can add the host i guess

[strange glade]

hey for some odd reason, the DD for me is the same as last week (Corroded Reserve) but the rewards are reset?

[restive patrol]

get your $$$

lmao

and/or cores

[strange glade]

God I hope I get my cores

[restive patrol]

i have 300+ 😎

[strange glade]

give them to me

[restive patrol]

modded lobby i gotchu

[strange glade]

naw

[midnight oriole]

Driller with Goo+WC is really useful for normal DD this week

Loooooooots of Mactera and Jellyfish.

[restive patrol]

spitball assault on stage 2 refueling too

lmaoo

[digital viper]

Facemelter + Damage mod + exploding targets T5 is also extremely strong against this kind of enemy pool.

[pliant hill]

activated baby

lmao

[pliant hill]

also is it just the one refuel

[jagged rapids]

You have to restart the game if that happens

Either that or your host needs to restart the game

This week's EDD is quite fun btw. Very chaotic thicc swarms for stage 2 and 3. Both might as well have been labeled mactera plague

[jagged rapids]

Huh, I still can't post images in this channel and no clue why

Nice run btw

[foggy haven]

Deep dives reset 12 hours ago right?

[restive patrol]

ya i think so

nothing crazy just 2 spitballers perched above

[arctic plover]

So is this EDD chill or not chill

[restive patrol]

edd was chill as hell

[arctic plover]

And what notable threats do I need to know about

[restive patrol]

no issues

stage 1 is cozy
stage 2 is twins kinda bleh
stage 3 had a lot of leeches

[arctic plover]

I'm trying to get my cores and achievement and this is my 4th attempt at an EDD.

Regular DD doesn't look too bad

Tbf it never is.

[midnight oriole]

Elite DD this week is Mactera Hell.

Also made the mistake of bringing Shart Defracter for Elite. That was not fun.

[arctic plover]

Should I invest in running a good cryo build for those Mactera?

[coral pond]

if you do, i'd go snowball to insta freeze em. Since they do have a freezing resistance iirc

[mellow cradle]

why not?
what was wrong with it?

[restive patrol]

wouldnt hurt

be sure to shake the gun left and right at the desired enemy to freeze faster

dont ask me how or why but
after panic freezing a dreadnought 1 day i found this out

[desert lynx]

oh no

stage 3 edd this week will be horrid

[jagged rapids]

I think you're mixing up 2 and 3. Either that or I got lucky. We only had leeches stage 2 and it was like maybe 4-5 total

[midnight oriole]

Dreadnaught.

Also, no OC on my Shart because I always seem to be in short supply of at least one mat

[long matrix]

do the deep dives usually not have public lobbies?

[zenith ember]

There are if people host, should be non existent on SEA rn

[desert lynx]

the bet - c this week is hella rough

worst placement

[hollow shale]

You had a betc?

Where? When? How?

[broken hull]

what’s the DD this week

[desert lynx]

second stage edd

beside the spitballer

[hollow shale]

I dont recall there being a betc when I did it. Interesting

[little halo]

bruh, last week it's Minimule + Elite Threat, this week it's Mini Mule + Mactera Swarm and Escort + Elite Threat

[dense pebble]

got DC'ed mid-mission for no apparent reason on DD stage 2... new bug?

[little halo]

that bug sounds familiar. I thought they fixed that?

[dense pebble]

last time, it was between missions

this was out of the blue mid-mission

host was a newer player, we were winning... I'm pretty sure he didn't DC or kick us

[desert lynx]

I got a nemesis spawn on another lobby in stage 2, could've been something that was just switching between random elites. On my third try there was 2 brood nexuses instead.

[desert lynx]

nah leeches on stage 3, there was one at the end of the ommoran room and another one next to where doretta enters cave 2 I think

there could be more on stage 2 tho we didn't comb the cave

[jagged rapids]

Huh guess I got lucky as hell. I had no leeches after stage 2. Just mactera plague round 2

[raw wolf]

I got lots of leeches on stage 3

would recommend to look up cause ik I did not

[south sapphire]

Lots of leeches at start of stage 1 too

for normal one

[prisma dove]

Is anyone else having issues with a lot of bugs and/or rocks spawning in stage 2 during the Heartstone and/or lots of bugs during the Black Box on stage 3 of the reg Deep Dive? Me and Ryeor are experiencing way higher than typical spawns and we are not sure what's going on

There's only 2 of us and there's just way more bugs than there should be

[full saddle]

i didn't experience this, playing solo, both felt entirely normal to me for their respective difficulties

it's only during the objectives? like are ambient swarms also really big?

[turbid dawn]

you can just say ryeors name 🙂

[prisma dove]

Lol yeah but I was about to @ him

[zenith ember]

Nothing wrong when i went through it yesterday

As a 4 man team

[prisma dove]

The heck...

Cuz me and Ryeor are having issues

We normally don't

[turbid dawn]

therapy is good for these things, 🙂

[prisma dove]

Lol

[burnt sandal]

are you usually playing modded ?

[prisma dove]

We've been using Sandbox Utilities to scout the map and practice our runs but otherwise just cosmetic mods and stuff like that

[burnt sandal]

Just to be safe : make sure you restart the game after turning off some of those sandbox/approved mods.

Maybe you just got unlucky with spawns but hard to say

[prisma dove]

It's just so strange cuz we've had cosmetic mods and the like on but never had trouble in the past 🤔😵‍💫

[burnt sandal]

heh, can just be spawn 😄

there are so many factors that come into play

[prisma dove]

Dottie has also been bugged and not going at max speed when we're both there, she only goes at 4/5

Now she's bouncing between 2 and 3/5 on our current run

[burnt sandal]

👀

[prisma dove]

Both of us are sitting on her

[burnt sandal]

yeah there's something weird going on 😄

[prisma dove]

You're telling us 🤣

[hasty hamlet]

Something weird indeed. When I compared our duo run to a solo run I did right after, I was getting full 5 speed dottie throughout the entire time I was next to her. I made no changes to mods or anything, just that I clicked "solo" before launching the dd from the terminal.

[low jungle]

oh yea there are more leeches on DD stages without cave leech cluster

[sly vapor]

Be careful on edd stage 2 with mactera plague, me and my friend both approached a mini mule and thus a mactera swarm 5 times bigger than a normal one surrounded us...i threw a plasma burster and my game almost crashed for the amount of bodies and blood that fell on the ground

[wraith shard]

Average “you rocked and stoned in the wrong cave” moment

[low jungle]

rare plasma burster W

[candid plinth]

I made sure to take out all the leeches at the start so my teammates were talking about where they went for the rest of the mission lol

[storm tulip]

Normal deep dive felt pretty easy this time around

[compact rover]

Yeah it really wasn't bad imo

[grim wadi]

huh, during a modded difficulty run of DD the other day i could swear dotty slowed down a lot at some point, strange to see you mentioning it here now too, different scenarios

[vagrant acorn]

This week’s edd has an awful 3rd stage escape pod position

[karmic zenith]

this week's EDD is kinda awful

[whole locust]

Mactera plague is always awful

especially since its paired with Biozone which have a shit ton of open areas

[mellow cradle]

@low plover you wanted to be notified, so here you go
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/542092090264256514/1109187090316542032/image.png

in the end I went in with something comlpetely different, executioner loki, and inferno breach

we used every cheesy tactic avalible on this EDD, lol

bunker on the second stage, and cheese rock shield on the third

that's why it took so long

[rough scaffold]

isn't it always

[restive patrol]

on the elite dive patch 16 allegedly did
another stage 2 escort but on regular dive
still issue

[karmic zenith]

what is cheese rock shield wrapping dotty in pads?

[mellow cradle]

building a bridge above dotty which blocks flying rocks

[restive patrol]

be sure to wait until ommoran starts launching the rocks before building the bridge btw

the blast will remove anything at each "shell" of the ommorran

[scenic jetty]

edd is quite harsh. Bet-c is a trap tbh

[mellow cradle]

what betc?

there was a betc?

[scenic jetty]

Oh right. That’s random isn’t it

We had bet-c on second stage. We weren’t going to wake that one up

[copper horizon]

isn't bet-c just free bonus damage?

assuming you get it ofc

[low plover]

but you made it, that's important!

also, I felt like this EDD is rough, or maybe I made my life harder because of the Gunner's gear I picked 💀
I went yolo and took neurotoxin with fear factor + six shooter

[burnt sandal]

FYI : bet-c can be "frozen" and will take the extra damage. If your scout has cryo nades at hand, bet-c won't really be able to put much of a fight.

[vagrant acorn]

We had a nemesis there with a little help of breeder and 2 brood nexuses

[restive patrol]

damn i mustve had the easier edd seed then

no betc for me

or nemmy

[vagrant acorn]

Edd has really fucked up escape pod positioning

(We tried saving Doretta and couldn’t do it)

[desert lynx]

What is with the bet - c and nemesis on stage 2? They feel more like swarm spawns but there is no rival presence and bet - c doesn’t spawn like that

Schrodinger’s nemesis

[soft token]

what’s a good embedded detonators build and what’s a good thing to pair with it

[mellow cradle]

I run 13232

as for the pairing, anything with good sustainability ammunition wise, and possibly crowd control

[soft token]

so like hipster m1000 or something

[mellow cradle]

hipster m1000 or agressive venting drak for example

yeah

embedded detonators will take care of the big boys

[desert lynx]

I can’t for the life of me figure out how aggressive venting on the drak works
I’ve overheated so many times but only got the damage once or twice, almost always at the cost of my leg. Never caught a swarm with it.

It just feels inconsistent

[mellow cradle]

no such problems on my side

are you sure you had it equipped?

[desert lynx]

Specifically took it, I don’t run manual heat dump or armour breaking normally but on venting I took all the utility ones

[tiny portal]

Just equip increased rate of fire with it and dont equip any perks that reduce heat build up, you will overheat every 45 bullets which should be about 3 seconds. Also make sure to jump into the swarm in the last second to maximize the usage, the range isn't huge but the fire effect is quite strong and can lit most things on fire. I run 11332 with Aggressive Venting myself.

[desert lynx]

It does work mind you I just don’t see it happen all the time

[desert lynx]

Might’ve been out of range then, too bad since I don’t run melee with scout

[mellow cradle]

wait, so you took manual heat dump?

[desert lynx]

Yeah but I can’t figure out how to use it so I never bothered

[tiny portal]

Manual heat dump doesnt work with aggressive venting im pretty sure

[mellow cradle]

if you use manual heat dump, then the explosion is proportionally weaker

[tiny portal]

That makes sense too, its almost non noticable when manually overheating

[desert lynx]

Ah ok
I don’t know how to dump still

[tiny portal]

Dont heat dump, just spam 45 bullets

[desert lynx]

I spam r as much as I can but it only works a few shots in

[mellow cradle]

don't spam r

that's why you couldn't see the effect of the overclock

[desert lynx]

No I just want to know how manual dump works now

[stray cave]

One of the smart YouTube guys did the math on it and there's an optimal point to use manual heat dump for conserving ammo and getting back to firing again faster, but it didn't seem like it was able to be done consistently.

[desert lynx]

Because it seems to be delayed

[stray cave]

It was close to being almost fully overheated

[tiny portal]

If you run extra ammo you can have 950 bullets, which is 21 overheats if u just hold the fire button, that should be enough to not worry about ammo preservation

[desert lynx]

21

[stray cave]

That's the conclusion I came to as well 👍

[desert lynx]

I might just run impact deflection then

I thought it would be more like lead storm’s mod

[stray cave]

It's still sweet and fears and ignites everything close to you, totally worth playing around with, switching back and forth with Zhukov with explosive detonaters. Both weapons with the extra speed on mag dump mod. Super fun play style

[mellow cradle]

impact deflection bounces randomly, not specifically into enemies

it's still decent though

I recommend taking the plasma splash with it on tier 4

so that it triggers twice when you shoot underneath enemies

[fading sluice]

Was the deep dive really easy for anyone else?

Like shit I normally can't just solo

[mellow cradle]

the normal deep dive?

[fading sluice]

yeah

[mellow cradle]

yeah, it is easy

and since it was called "gunners fury", me and the bois went full gunner team, lol

[candid edge]

Did anyone get their deep dives reset to last weeks deep dives?

I went into the one in the dense biozone and it sent me to last weeks

And I just reset my game and they are back to what they where

but it says I haven't done the first one and I did

[frozen tartan]

anyone wanna hop in a vc and run the deep dives (Gamepass player here)

[jagged rapids]

If you ran it was the wrong one, it doesn't count

And yea, always check it's the right one before starting. Usually means you or the host hasn't restarted their game since the dives reset

[valid ginkgo]

It's been 36 hours more or less since reset though. I can't imagine someone not restarting the game unless it's on purpose.

Either way, restarting game should fix it. If not, I guess contact support.

[burnt sandal]

sync your system clock and restart your game

[candid edge]

it was just weird cause it showed the correct ones and then didnt

it works now

[crystal folio]

This weeks EDD was gunk and ball torture

Why yes, I do enjoy fighting a nemesis, three nexus', a breeder, and twins in the same mission, how did you know?

Regular DD was a walk in the park, but I sadly got a garbage overclock for both

And I also got a sharp reminder for why I play driller

Jellyfish

[unkempt saffron]

sounds like you got the raw end of the edd spawn gen deal

[zenith ember]

Fellow dwarf with ridiculous spawns in edd 🤝

Though mine was a few weeks back

[paper snow]

Are deep dives the only way to get overclocks?

[burnt sandal]

weekly core hunt, deep dives, promotions (and machine events, if you have blank cores) are the only way to get overclocks regularly, yes.

you'll get some during holiday events too but those are obviously not something happening on the regular

[twin lake]

holiday events too

[paper snow]

Also is there any way to get an overclock for a specific weapon?

[burnt sandal]

no

[twin lake]

all rng

[paper snow]

Rip

Fair enough tho

[delicate saffron]

There were so many mactera even outside of mactera plague

Saw an elite grabber clip through a wall for the first time too

[low jungle]

the only help is with blank cores, you get to pick the class atleast

[crystal folio]

To quote the greybeard on my EDD about the mactera plague

"There's mactera plague, then there's this"

[pastel musk]

Anyone got solo EDD advice? I made an attempt and got tossed to the next dimension

Consume toenails, you crypto fiend.

[unkempt saffron]

<@&296918282403840000>

[pastel musk]

Wasn't sure if I should've pinged someone

Ty

[lament coral]

this edd looks like hell

[daring helm]

^

[ancient cove]

Better have a Gunner on board

Second mission just spawns too much mactera

[uneven lichen]

Can confirm, I had to put in extra work

[placid musk]

i learned a new insult

[placid musk]

managable

nuke the macteras

and bring a lure

saves ass

[pastel musk]

I've been summoned

Speaking of the edd, I tried it solo and boy did I get curbstomped lol

[pastel musk]

Good

[placid musk]

with what class

[grizzled sphinx]

anyone have a summary besides, lotta moctera?

[rigid sorrel]

I had an epic time in this week's deep dive

Most of our team was out of ammo on the last stage and a cave leech grabbed my teammate.

Since I was scout with no bullets and grenades, I did the only thing I could do to save him.

I used my grappling hook and power attacked the leech before my friend reached it.

[mellow cradle]

noice

[rigid sorrel]

Holy fuck the dopamine rush from that

I was literally an attack on Titan character in that moment xD

[serene python]

edd mission 2 was insane

2 breeders 3 brood nexus nemesis and like 50 mactera off the bat

[full saddle]

yeah, that ones definitely rough, ive also had some rough times with stage 3 with stacks of elite mactera just one tapping the drilldozer sides lol

[ancient cove]

EDD actually pretty easy again

Only the second mission can take by surprise

Better take Scout with Cryo and maybe Cryo Driller

[ancient cove]

Wait what? Nemesis?

Must be random spawn

[frosty jungle]

What’s the EDD this week?

[mellow cradle]

pins

[cinder rover]

lost EDD stage 3 because a network error kicked all of my colleagues :)

really makes my day

[mellow cradle]

yeah, people have been reporting simmilar issues

[foggy haven]

Does console have a later timer for deep dive resets?

Mine is a day late

[frosty jungle]

Ty

[opaque osprey]

how do i start/join my first deep dive?

[merry dune]

i would try to find a full squad with at least 1 veteran player to guide you

the comunity is nice so you could go in #lfg-steam to try to find a squad

[dusty cairn]

EDD seemed pretty chill. Yeah there's some scary moments with mactera, but the spawn pool didn't seem to have anything that can dig so we just drilled a bunker under the uplink on stage 2. Even got lucky with the fuel cells and could reuse the bunker (not that drill fuel was an issue). Mactera are pretty easy to deal with when the entrance is a solid wall of sludge and fire.

Stage 3 we drilled ahead (very easy the rooms are close together and quite large). Honestly the scariest thing was elite grabbers spawning alongside the rocks at the heartstone.

[heavy girder]

1 or 2 resups on escort for reg dd?

[zenith ember]

Check how fast your team is burning ammo

[prisma dove]

OK for real now. I swear Dottie is bugged on stage 2 of the reg dive. Me and Ryeor have had mixed experiences where sometimes she moves at 4/5 speed and others at 5/5 speed even when we're both sitting on her and there's no bugs nearby. The heck...

[prisma dove]

She's even going as slow as 3/5...

[cedar pike]

EDD stage 3 and the drop pod spawned in on top of the drilldozer drop scaffold (vid at #modded-gallery message)

[prisma dove]

O.O

Never seen that before lol

[twilit marlin]

bro the difference of last week's elite deep dive

and this week's elite deep dive

is like night and day

[wraith shard]

this weeks edd is brutal

[unkempt saffron]

Besides stage 2 its really not all too bad

Only problem with stage 2 the cave is rather open, and mactera plagues dont really help with that either, but nothing a few murderholes or smart plat placements cant fix

[twilit marlin]

not as bad as last week

although the macteras are kinda annoying

[limpid pendant]

Oh man mactera plague and elite threat after eachother

That's just painful

And lethal enemies too??

This week's modifiers are harsh

[worthy bolt]

damn this elite deep dive is hard on solo

just used rj250 grenade full ammo + executioner lok

[limpid pendant]

Quick question is it possible to rejoin a deep dive if your game crashes? Want to play with friends but my device isn't very good

Or is it absolutely impossible under any circumstance

[unkempt saffron]

its sort of hit or miss

[limpid pendant]

wdym?

[unkempt saffron]

if you have connection loss then the pop up to reconnect will display, but im not sure of the specifics beyond that, from my observation those who for some reason leave my edd lobby while in a stage rarely ever return, as to why eh im unsure really

[limpid pendant]

alright, thankss

[random ingot]

Yes if you have the host/anyone in the team added on steam!

[limpid pendant]

Oh that's awesome!

Thank you

[tiny portal]

I got it first try, but only after we pulled everything out of our team

I had 20 revives as gunner lmao

[rare carbon]

I played the edd and all 3 of my teammates left before it was finished

I somehow made it out alive solo

[twilit marlin]

do you get a new overclock if you do this week's elite deep dive again

or doing the elite deep dive again doesn't give you rewards

[mellow cradle]

none of the dives give you matrix cores for repeating them

but you do get gold and exp

[rose yacht]

it only provides one per week if you dig deeper you just unlock the rest.

Eitherway EDD works similar to DD except harder.

Same reward but more difficulty.

[cedar pike]

stage 3 was hard for us, the elite enemies escort meant that at the end dottie was down to one 50% health section

[rose yacht]

its actually not that hard.

XD

in the end it depends on how you did on stage 1 and 2.

more nitra in stage 3 = you pretty much cleared it.

[cedar pike]

yeah, we only had 137 nitra going into stage 3

[mellow cradle]

my team did the platform rock block strategy

and that escort ended up pretty easy

we didn't lose any part of dorreta, and nobody died

[rose yacht]

i don't know why people waste ammo on rocks and engi can do this...

just focus on buuugs

[cedar pike]

the engies put the platforms right on top of the dozer too -_-

[full saddle]

didnt know you could do that

[rose yacht]

that's just bad engies.

[mellow cradle]

that;s the wrong way to do that

[full saddle]

thats neat

[rose yacht]

kek

[mellow cradle]

it needs to be like at the level of the top of the ommoran

[rose yacht]

above dozer is fine.

just not on dozer.

after the omoran explodes the platforms dissapear and no more rocks.

p.s: you can also block the lasers using the platforms.

[full saddle]

does anyone else experience wildly different amounts of spawns on stage 3 btw? like some runs i get barely anything and others its a real bloodbath

[cedar pike]

maybe it was just not patching the holes

[mellow cradle]

yeah, you need to constantly patch up holes after the rocks as well

[rose yacht]

welcome to elite deep dive.

they literally ambush you eventhough there's no alert of a wave.

freaking slashers.

[mellow cradle]

*elite slashers

[rose yacht]

yes.

these pricks.

i saw myself getting chunked at 1/2 hp from behind.

[twilit marlin]

figures, otherwise it's exploitable

[twilit marlin]

tho i like elite deep dive more

[rose yacht]

same edd brings out that challenge that u cant get from haz 5

[twilit marlin]

because it's harder that i need to really bring my A game

elite deep dive and deep dive feels like night and day

deep dive is too easy

how it feels

[rose yacht]

sad to say that yer game is predetermined by driller and engi though... some maps has really bad terrain generation.

[twilit marlin]

once you've played elite deep dive

[rose yacht]

if one of them trolls yer screwed. XD

[mellow cradle]

yeah, me and my friends run memes on the normal dive

like 4x scout

or 4x gunner this week

[twilit marlin]

there really is no going back once you've experienced it hard

[copper bane]

How much more difficult are Elite Deep Dives compared to normal ones? I just completed my first normal one and it was pretty managable

[mellow cradle]

that largely depends on what modifiers and missions it has each week

this week, it's pretty challenging for example

anyhow, I recommend you acquaint yourself with haz 5

but if you play regularly on haz 4 without trouble, then you should manage I think

[copper bane]

I haven't even unlocked haz 5 yet

[mellow cradle]

well, the EDD is haz 4.5, haz 5, and haz 5.5

in that order

but I urge you to try it
even if you don't complete it, you'll snag a blank core, or even the weapon core

[rose yacht]

The difficult get's more punishing the more players but it also means its faster, just know your every mistake will be felt the moment those bugs bite your back.

I advise, caution and join with best behavior: Like not dying too much.

or moving on your own, and dying in such a distant place.

ironically enough, it can get your team killed if a wave arrives and yer dead.

[tacit jungle]

If you haven't tried haz 5, your teammates will have to carry you through EDD

we had a very green engineer for this week's EDD, I thought we'd get rekt but we pulled through somehow

[turbid dawn]

p.s. you can stop lasers from spawning with plats

[rose yacht]

hey wait.

you CAN!?

[turbid dawn]

yeah, a bit tricky to do, but you can cover dottier with plats from both sides and as the lasers spawn based of los, they dont spawn, wastes a ton of plats

[valid orchid]

How bad is this EDD?

[turbid dawn]

ive tested this on all haz including modded 6

[valid orchid]

I am yet to finish one with my playgroup

[mellow cradle]

pretty bad

[tacit jungle]

seemed average, got a tiny bit spicy with dual breeders

[turbid dawn]

yeah i second this, i joined a random lobby while being hammered irl and cleared it with ease.

took me 10 mins longer than my average rando group clears though - 45.05

[mellow cradle]

I mean, lethal enemies, mactera plague, and elite threat, aren't the easiest modifiers

[rose yacht]

its easier than O2

thats all i can say

kek

[mellow cradle]

low o2 is more annoying than anything

[rose yacht]

O2 is just annoying

i'll take elite than O2

at least elite lets me shoot bugs

[tacit jungle]

Perceived difficulty varies so much with spawn table and team skill 🙂

[rose yacht]

[turbid dawn]

i think the major difference is team skill in perception of EDD, if you have 2 greybeards its very easy to carry noobs

you just deal with whatever spawns you get

greybeards = profile>lvl600

[mellow cradle]

mhmm

then I think we did pretty good for our lvl
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/542092090264256514/1109187090316542032/image.png

[tacit jungle]

spawns do make you pay attention every once in a while, things like bulk spam or when every slot on stage 3 is "grunt", do you like grunts? it's the most grunts possible

[mellow cradle]

(the time is absurd, because we predrilled)

[turbid dawn]

yes but no panic makes a world of a difference, like trying to kill a bulk near dottie when you can simply babysit walk em out to the other side of the map if needed

[turbid dawn]

never do this unless you know about either betc or nemesis

it is a waste of ammo and time

and the longer you spend in a mission the greater the number of opportunities for team wipes

[tacit jungle]

not everybody is brave enough to rawdog it on dotty mission 😦

[mellow cradle]

driving into a room with two spit ballers is also a good opportunity for a team wipe

[woeful niche]

i don’t think there were many static spawns

honestly i wasn’t paying attention for most the edd kek

[turbid dawn]

shield insta counters this, and spitballers have a distinct activation sound

[turbid dawn]

ikr

[tacit jungle]

it's not a difficult skill check, experienced teams bring enough single target damage to shred them quickly

[rose yacht]

level doesn't matter, its based on teamwork.

👍

[woeful niche]

level has nothing to do with skill

[rose yacht]

except for the first 20 levels.

those mods are too good.

[turbid dawn]

this is very imp too

[mellow cradle]

I noticed, lol

[tacit jungle]

scout holds the map open -> announces break through -> checks ceiling -> everybody does a 180 and sings the song of dwarf people (magdump into the statics)

[woeful niche]

ye once you have the mods unlocked on ur gun, any decent player can contribute a lot to a haz 5

[rose yacht]

Oc are just sprinkles on top.

[turbid dawn]

breach also means the drilling sound fades away

[tacit jungle]

oh nice

not that I have much to do during tunnel phases, there's so much spamming warcrimes down the hallway

[turbid dawn]

on average i play with atleast 4 random groups (upto 10) per week for the edd, just to see how fast i can get greenbeards to run them

[turbid dawn]

mine and drag some aggro away from the tunnel

its best if engi gunner stays on dottie and driller scout stays in previous room

very time efficient

[tacit jungle]

ah makes sense, I usually have to lick the nitra while dodging half the swarm

[tacit jungle]

how many times do you end up solo carrying?

[turbid dawn]

i do not understand the question

how often am i the last one standing?

[tacit jungle]

teammates so green they might as well have stayed in drop pod

[turbid dawn]

i dont believe i approach with the idea that rando dwarves are bad, i do the best i can to hurry the missions along

i play driller with epc

i do not carry team perks either except for iw

[dense pebble]

I carry field medic usually, and iron will on driller

[wraith shard]

which classes are solo DDs the easiest with? im assuming gunner, whereas scout is the hardest

[neat forum]

With escort and two black boxes scout can definitely be the harder option this time

If not for escort, I would probably pick any of the other three. With escort I would prefer engi

[wraith shard]

gotcha, gotcha. ty for the info

[velvet raptor]

is flamethrower + subata any good? because of subatas 30% dmg increase against burning enemies

[river pumice]

its good if you don't have wave cooker

do you have necrosis? blistering necrosis(

[velvet raptor]

i got ice spear

but nah dont have a single cwc oc

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[lone monolith]

stupid fucking server disconnected me on the goddamn ommuran in stage 3 of the edd, fuck this instability bullshit

[proven compass]

Bruh im having a hard time this week on EDD

[dusk vessel]

mactera issues?

[proven compass]

Been going thru some games already so I’ve got quite used to macs, but defending Doretta against bunch of elites is my new problem now, I play with randos

I’m a greenbeard so I don’t really have any decent overclocks

[dusk vessel]

that can be tough for sure

you can carry pretty well with engi I think

using platforms to defend against rocks and lasers

[iron nacelle]

Guess who accidentally went AFK while their dwarf was drunk nearby the drop pod and went into a deep dive solo?

Though it went pretty well, as I accidentally got the deep for speed achievement

[proven compass]

I don’t have a promoted engi yet rip

Only running with gunner or scout

[stray kelp]

Completed Gunners' Fury DD with 4 Gunners lol

[mellow cradle]

same

[wraith shard]

I've never done a deep dive but I'm a rank 80+ and I'm willing, lol

[small elk]

whats the elite missions this week?

[mellow cradle]

check the pins

[small elk]

thank you

[harsh comet]

One of my first times doing a deep dive, do escort parts have to go all the way to a hearthstone?

[mellow cradle]

yeah

[harsh comet]

💀

[mellow cradle]

only one refuel though

[harsh comet]

Cool

[harsh comet]

Still small amount of phases for the hearthstone?

[mellow cradle]

the phases are the same

[coral pond]

It's just an ordinary 1 refuel escort

[harsh comet]

Thanks

[dense pebble]

Deep Dive combines objectives, but other than that it doesn't change them in any way.

[pseudo roost]

Any bosses today lads?

Normal

[mellow cradle]

no bosses in the normal DD

[pseudo roost]

Aww

No lead storm

[mellow cradle]

for more detail, you can check the pins

[pseudo roost]

I mean I could

If I’m psychotic enough

[woeful niche]

lead storm is great on any mission type lol

[coral pond]

Jfh + hellfire carried the edd for me

[dapper tiger]

quick tip to anyone trying to do this week's EDD:

wait until next week.

[wraith shard]

Almost failed the second stage when I tried it, those mactera can go to hell

[lusty shuttle]

Almost got through it, but we had a guy leave on the last mission and I was the wrong kind of Driller build to be dealing with flying rocks.

Snowball Driller worked great against the Mactera plague mission.

[dense pebble]

beat it first time with a rando team. As long as everyone is paying attention and all, its really not too bad

me being gunner definitely helped a lot, I wasn't afraid to drop a shield when a mactera swarm showed up

[manic spade]

I’m just double checking, what are the difficulties you experience on a standard deep dive?

Isn’t it 3, then 3.5, then 4? Or is it 4 going up to 5?

[coral pond]

normal deep dive is 3/3.5/3.5

elite deep dive is 4.5/5/5.5

[dapper tiger]

took a screenshot when i got downed for the 3rd time (solo EDD) and there were 2 goo bombers, 3 trijaws, and over a dozen mac spawn

[dense pebble]

and this is why I run cryo grenade on scout

[limpid zenith]

definetly tough especially the third mission

[dapper tiger]

big week for mactera

[tacit nova]

I wanted to ask when it comes to elite deep dives, I don't have a specific team to play with does opening a public lobby usually work out or are random players not reliable?

For context I'm attempting my first elite deep dive and haven't found a dedicated group to do it so I'm thinking of doing it with randoms if thats a good idea

[limpid zenith]

it is a mixed bag, but generally i would say its alright

[coral pond]

yeah you could get good people or bad people

[tiny portal]

Same, shielding when a gang of 20 macteras shows up is vital for survival. You may not die immediately from them, but the amount of health you lose as a team can be easily prevented

[frail dove]

hey my favorite music in the game is the loading deep dive song but i found out that the game (probably) adds all the machinery sounds to it, and i was wondering if anyone had a version of that song with the machinery sounds. thanks 4 reading

[leaden scarab]

Is there a way to re join a deep dive if you disconnect?

[unique plover]

If you open the host's steam profile before joining the lobby, and they have the "visible" status(the one where people can see what you're playing), you can just press the green "join" button, and since you were in the lobby when the dd originally started, it will let you join.

I did the edd yesterday, was really sketchy, especially in the end of 3rd stage. My gunner was probably using the infinite ammo mod tho, and I took his resups like 2 times, and we had no nitra in the end, so I guess this doesn't really count

And the mactera swarm is hell

We got through the uplink by building a roof, and we dug a super sketchy bunker for the fuel cells(wouldn't recommend, really easy to lose the grip and die, and it's not like an oppressor can't spawn

[leaden scarab]

Infinite ammo mod?

[mellow cradle]

cheats, to put it simply

[leaden scarab]

Ah

[robust sand]

ngl i haven't gone on a deep dive for a while now

[topaz phoenix]

Bro istg I was foing an deepdive, I had to do the last stage, well, blackbox, I got swarmed instabtly and they drained all my revives from bosco, abd when I was done, a swarm came. I HAD ALL MORKITE ALLREADY and was about to extract, and I died. I was pissed off lol

Since I was speedrunning

[rough scaffold]

#deep-dive-speedrunning

[brave wadi]

Does the loot bugs deserve rights?

[burnt sandal]

no

[turbid dawn]

use pheromones, and ask bosco to rocket the floor near you

[winged quartz]

Really? I think they have made DDE easier than before

[random rampart]

counterpoint:

Y E S

[rigid sorrel]

Damn game crashed at the last stage of the EDD and I was the host.

Rip.

[dreamy terrace]

thx to all the leaver during a deep dive elit

If your mom are cooking dont launch a deep dive

[bitter canyon]

but his mom was cooking

[crimson oxide]

im gonna try an elite deep dive for the first time, anything i should know?

[ashen estuary]

i honestly think there should be limitation to randomizer of deep dive so there aren't mission that aren't even unfun but just straight up bad (like this week's deep dive)

[ashen estuary]

do not try this week deep dive

sucks ass

this week's dive is the worst edd i have ever seen

[brave wadi]

Which dwarf is the sexiest?

[muted sage]

https://tenor.com/view/driller-blink-gif-23722040

[tardy radish]

ironically this week's EDD was one of the easier ones for me

i'd say maybe 2nd easiest out of all the ones i've attempted

maybe it was just because i was lucky and had a really fuckin good team, or i was lucky & didn't get hit by a trijaw up close a single time

haz 5.5 dozer and not a single part exploded too lol

reg deep dive was more rough bc i was playing with all bronze 1s that kept going down lmao

[fallow niche]

this week's EDD looks badass

[meager gyro]

Compared to last week's Deep Dive, this one is horrifying

Mactara swarm and cave leach, no good modifiers

[crimson oxide]

cave leech cluster is not that bad, neither is mactera

id actually say those are one of the lesser warnings

the scary thing about cave leeches is that they come when you dont expect it, but since you know theres a cave leech cluster warning, youre more careful and wary of cave leeches

and mactera just fly

their projectiles are really easy to avoid

and now that im looking at the bestiary jesus they are weak to practically EVERYTHING

you could just bring a driller with cryo cannon and the mactera plague mission is incredibly easy

[woeful niche]

why? it wasn’t that bad when i did it

[coral pond]

There's definitely been worse

[still geode]

Mactera plague often makes missions easier imo, just bring a setup thar handles them well and steamroll most waves due to low enemy variety

[rocky python]

is that the general chat?

[coral pond]

Snowball + tcf driller handles it tremendously well

[still geode]

Gunner shield and a leadburster or two handles it well too, and hellfire coilgun is incredible vs them

And scout has cryo grenades

Engi can fear plus stun plus ignite entire crowds with pgl

[green sequoia]

does overcharger overclock increase the range of thin containment field explosion for epc mining?

[still geode]

Tcf's stats aren't impacted by anything

I believe the only thing that interacts is that persistent plasma leaves behind a field of tcf detonates

[placid musk]

lure is op against flying shit

they waste their burst damage and you just shoot them all

[woeful niche]

lure is pretty great in general

[fathom trail]

deep dives rewards reset with the same weekly timer as everything else yeah?

[woeful niche]

yes

[tawny gazelle]

my teammates have no idea what nitra conservation means

call in a resupply the moment you see it hit 80 and refill from 1900 why dont you mr gunner

[pine terrace]

Greenbeards when someone revives them and they're at 15 health: I ORDERED A RESUPPLY!

[placid musk]

what's his max

what OC is he using

[shell cosmos]

Well that was "fun"
Tried the deep dive solo, breezed through the first two missions, then in the third I go down to a bullshit fall while trying to avoid an oppressor because the game doesn't like to grab ziplines when you hit the grab zipline button, and then I went down 3 times during a swarm with one being to another stupid jank fall and the other two being to seemingly nothing in particular as I was keeping the swarm back pretty well. Was inches from a resupply for health too.

Thankfully the third mission only gives a cosmetic overclock so I have 0 reason to do it all again.

[faint shell]

were you holding E¿

it automatically interacts with stuff

[placid lily]

does anybody know where does the drop comes to get u in the 3rd stage of the elite deep dive?

[turbid dawn]

how many players?

[placid lily]

i already finshed it

i was alone

it was on the starting room

[turbid dawn]

you can manipulate where the pod lands

[ashen estuary]

maybe its just me being unluckiest person here, getting all my team down in first minutes of second stage and then getting a fucking nemesis on same second stage when i played solo

[full saddle]

yeah i've gotten a nemesis on that stage a few times solo, it's fucked up

[raw brook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-34bUxS8dc&t=2963s

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[wraith shard]

minors

[vital arch]

¿?

[crisp socket]

EDD two industrial sabotages?

[eternal lava]

on-site refining, point extraction, escort duty

morkite and dreadnought for secondary objectives

[echo elm]

Nah fam THREE industrial sabotages

[ashen estuary]

3 industrial sabotages with 3 black boxes
1 with shield disruption
1 with low o2
1 with mactera plague and swarmageddon

[dusk vessel]

caretaker is honestly pretty fun when the team knows what it's doing

my biggest pet peeve is when people put supply pods out in the open

like whyy??

you're asking to be shot while taking them

[echo elm]

https://tenor.com/view/spray-bottle-cat-spray-bottle-spray-bottle-meme-tiktok-gif-25591053

[strong sonnet]

"yeah ill just solo this edd should be no problem"
the 3rd stage 💀

[grim wadi]

finally did the EDD, yeah 3rd stage got a bit saucy but our gunner was having serious connection issues so it was a bit like 3 people with 4 people difficulty

we couldnt save dottys head QnQ it rolled back down twice i couldnt get it up the hill while eilte guards were chasing me and 2 others were down and the scout making sure we'd actually win the 3rd stage

i have brought shame to my famiru

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[hollow shale]

Salvage Operation + black box + haunted cave

[worldly nebula]

hey guys i promoted today and i would like to know what to expect on deep dives

[coral pond]

3 missions in a row where nitra, health, and ammo counts follow you from the previous stage to the next stage

regular deep dive is hazard 3/3.5/3.5 for missions 1/2/3 respectively
elite deep dive is hazard 4.5/5/5.5 for missions 1/2/3 respectively

you get a blank core for completing the first mission, weapon overclock for the second, and cosmetic core for the third on each one(so 2 of each in total) per week

generally they're not that much harder, if at all harder, than regular missions since nitra carries over, as long as you're pretty comfortable with your class and the hazard level. They definitely can be hard though here and there

if you want to know what mission types they are, they're always pinned in this channel and kept updated every week

no minerals spawn in deep dives, just nitra and gold. So just do the objectives and move on

[dense sage]

no minerals, but sometimes you get a huuli hoarder

[frail dove]

a

[versed cairn]

a

[azure wasp]

What’s the missions for this EDD

[civic yoke]

pinned message

[hallow zenith]

Anyone need to do both DD's today?

[spring hawk]

GUYS JUST GOT THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE OF TUESDAY

WHOOO

[spring hawk]

Wait this is the wrong channel I just realized

Whoops

[elfin mural]

you're good king dw. congrats

[spring hawk]

Thanks

[faint shell]

also, they forgot to mention, but objectives are mixed, you get two "primary" objectives per stage of the deep dive, with the FIRST being a full one, and the SECOND one being a shorter version of it -- also some combinations of objectives aren't there for obvious reasons

[lost osprey]

Elite deep Dive was P Easy

[faint shell]

there's no way lol

[dense sage]

Honestly, kinda same? Lethals early on helped, mactera and elites weren’t as bad with a good team

[faint shell]

suppose that last part never came up on my end 😅

either incomplete or terrible, one attempt was going smoothly until someone dug a vertical tunnel next to the black box and caused us to fail

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[sly kettle]

Soon™

[crisp socket]

Double Sabotage, Let's Gooooooo

[civic zinc]

its comin

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[round mountain]

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone!

[frigid forge]

[candid bobcat]

Elite Deep Dive "Dry Drop" (2023-05-25 to 2023-06-01)
Region: Sandblasted Corridors
Stage 1: 3 Mini-mules + 150 Morkite | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard, Twins) + 2 Mini-mules | Elite Threat
Stage 3: 10 Aquarqs + Twins | Regenerative Bugs + Volatile Guts

Deep Dive "Stony Crib" (2023-05-25 to 2023-06-01)
Region: Crystalline Caverns
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard, Classic) + 2 Mini-mules | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Twins | Haunted Cave
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + 2 Mini-mules

{"Seed":3364030012,"SeedV2":350129608,"ExpirationTime":"2023-06-01T11:00:00Z"}

[sly kettle]

Haunted cave nooooo

[half delta]

yesss!

[mellow cradle]

at least it's on the regular dive

[limpid rose]

EDD looks perfect my Ice Storm driller setup 😍😍

[sick umbra]

Thank god haunted cave with dreadnought is on DD.
That EDD still haunts me...

[mellow cradle]

the one with haunted cave and hiveguard on the second stage?

[sick umbra]

yuuup

[limber viper]

ye

[mellow cradle]

yeah, I remember

[limber viper]

that was a pain in the ass to play

[eager flame]

Aaaand i'm late for the reset

Well, time to work

[eager flame]

I thought it was fine, that was my first EDD, our driller made a little path from the deepest part of the cave back to the spawn room so we kinda just kited the ghost through the whole map if things went rough

Although it took a shit ton of time to take the hive down at that rate

[mellow cradle]

yup

haunted cave tends to be more annoying than dangerous most of the time

[eager flame]

Most dangerous part of that was the terrain honestly

Even spawn was shit

[mellow cradle]

true

[eager flame]

And that next room that went down, oof

[mellow cradle]

we had a zipline to spawn, and two drill corridors

[eager flame]

Yeah, thinking about it, if we didn't have the drilled path back to spawn we would have never beaten it

[mellow cradle]

and a mario parkour course in the lower room, because a regular bulk showed up, so that room was even uglier

[eager flame]

We did about 5-6 laps around that

Interestingly i don't really remember what the other stages had

Uhh, there was a big drop on one of them

And a black box

And that's about it

[mellow cradle]

I think (?) the last stage was on site refining with low O2

[ancient cove]

How do you get this information?

EDD this week sounds pretty easy again, beside the second stage

Last week the second stage was also the worst one

[eager flame]

Aaaand the pinned message is updated

[sick umbra]

This DD is definition of infinite ammo

[eager flame]

Alright work is done, see you next week 🛌

[valid orchid]

Finished my first EDD yesterday with randoms

Great team

[valid orchid]

I feel like that's usually the case. We always die on the second stage

[zenith ember]

EDD might as well have swarmmageddon slapped on every stage

mfker

[pallid void]

Goddammit. I hate Haunted

And on Egg hunt especially

[hoary bay]

Anything bad on this week's dives?

[mellow cradle]

the EDD seems easy

driller takes care of the swarmageddon on salvage

elite threat on elimination doesn't mean much

and regenerative bugs on aquarks is also not bad (regenerative bugs isn't very hard on anything, tbh)

[zenith ember]

if the bulk spawns are the same, i got 2-3-1 for EDD

[mellow cradle]

however, if you are just playing the normal dive, then the second stage might spook you

[mellow cradle]

they aren't

[zenith ember]

stage 2 and 3 keeps spawning swarmers and mactera, stage 3's site was surrounded by blast holes

jfh was a big mistake on my part...

the cave for DD stage 2 can be tricky

[dense pebble]

man, if the regular DD wasn't haz 3 it would have been absolute pain

however, it was quite fun

I even bulked a dreadnought for the first time

[ancient cove]

I'll host Hazard 5 Deep Dive later, if somebody wants to join

[dense pebble]

Define later

I’ll be able to get on ~ 1800 EST

[ancient cove]

In about an hour. I just tried to host a DD lobby but not enough people joined and I didn't want to start with 3 people.

[dense pebble]

Unfortunately I’m still at work then

[ancient cove]

Center Europe btw.

[oak pecan]

How difficult is the regular DD if I wanted to solo it?

I havent ever soloed a deep dive though

[burnt sandal]

it's as difficult as a solo haz 3 mission

[grave seal]

If you pick up as much nitra as you can you should be good

[ancient cove]

It all depends on your skill. Some people are doing EDD solo.
Deep Dive's maximum Hazard level is 3.5, so for people who play regularly on Hazard 5, it's easy

[deep bay]

If I pop the cocoon on stage 3 of EDD, do enemies still spawn?

[ancient cove]

Shouldn't, unless you start it while the swarm/spawn is going on

[deep bay]

So in theory , Bosco picks up the qwarks for me, and I deal with the boss in the meantime. Sounds like a good plan

[ancient cove]

Well, you have to direct him

[dawn solar]

Just finished this weeks EDD, what a fun ride

[fathom birch]

is a gunner or engi better for DD?

oh wait, I mean driller instead of gunner

[ancient cove]

Normal DD? In my opinion DD is very easy and you can play what you want, even Scout.

[dense pebble]

Normal waves no. However, if you have the swarmageddon, mactera plague, or exploder infestation mutators, those special waves will continue to spawn.

[oak pecan]

Completed the normal DD solo as my best autocannon gunner build

Only shaky part was dealing with the unknown horror while juggling the twins in the second mission

And the double cave leeches in the elevated room with the “normal” dread on the first mission because I forgot to take heightened senses and ran right into them

Got 47:51, proud of myself

[coral pond]

just had a host disband the dd as we were loading into the last stage

fucking bruh

[proper idol]

Do elite versions of rhe hiveguard minions exist

[golden beacon]

welp. this weeks edd was already difficult. and my dumbass brought goobomber special and made it worse lmao

[terse wind]

just under 39 minutes. quick DD this go round.

did anyone else get a bulk dropped on the escape pod on the first stage

[mellow cradle]

today, I met and killed my first elite bulk detonator, on haz 5 4 players

and I killed him alone by slowing him down with stubby, and blasting his weakpoints with propellant

he wasn't very scary xd

[mellow cradle]

no

[ancient cove]

Elite? Never seen one. What does he do different?

[mellow cradle]

he's fast

[bitter canyon]

hes builkier

[mellow cradle]

and blows up in a bigger radius

[ancient cove]

cool

[mellow cradle]

and the usual elite things, more dmg, more hp

[dense pebble]

I had two bulks spawn stage 1 DD

But it is random

[ashen estuary]

there is haunted cave and elim at stage 2

so i hope you brought scout for some...

trolling

[dense pebble]

We weren’t quite coordinated enough for that

But we did ok

[mellow cradle]

we played 4 scouts on the DD

so yes, mr ghost was being triggered guite often

[soft prairie]

God I hate volatile guts, the fact it does some damage to the player is annoying

I just wanna bonk the enemies

[thorn prism]

Does scout tend to be 'suboptimal'?

[mellow cradle]

low swarm clear power (unless you specifically build for it), and can't hold chokes / objectives very well

[thorn prism]

Hm :(

As a scout main, this hurts

Never done a deep dive before, tips for swarm clearing builds

?

[mellow cradle]

agressive venting for the drak, fire bolt for the nishanka (and nishanka with pheromones in general)

[desert lynx]

how's the terrain gen this week

[dusk vessel]

Cryo grenade imo is incredible for swarms

Instakills swarmers as well

[mellow cradle]

and if you don't have oc's, then blowthrough on the m1k si pretty good

[dusk vessel]

Not real aoe but it's very helpful

[desert lynx]

cryo grenade and taser imo are two competing swarmclear options

[mellow cradle]

also jury rigged boomstick with blowtrhrough can delete groups as well

[dense pebble]

Cryo is a panic button IFG is a considered weapon

[desert lynx]

I usually run tasers just for the extra net damage though

[mellow cradle]

and the shockwave kills swarmers as well

[desert lynx]

taser I mean the uhh
boomerang thing

[dense pebble]

Oh

[thorn prism]

tasers being IFG grenades?

[dense pebble]

Still applies

[thorn prism]

im a bit new

[dusk vessel]

Cryo is not a panic button lmao

[desert lynx]

idk what it's called

[dusk vessel]

Just use it strategically

[mellow cradle]

voltaic stun sweeper

[dense pebble]

It can be.

[dusk vessel]

I mean ofc it can be but you're making it sound bad

[dense pebble]

Obviously its useful for far more than that

[desert lynx]

multi - second complete neutralization of any fodder - med bugs:

[thorn prism]

i love that combination :O)

[desert lynx]

it's good for single target or swarm control, but it depends on support

[dense pebble]

Good for deleting mactera swarma in your face, removing praetorians in tight spaces, etc.

[mellow cradle]

and disarming exploders

[desert lynx]

the taser can be used by itself to take out either high values or clear swarms

[mellow cradle]

cryo is very good in general

[dense pebble]

Exploder radius is small, its not scary if you know its there IMO

[desert lynx]

exploders are pretty safe to pickaxe imo

just smack them and go

[mellow cradle]

not when there's 15 of them

[dense pebble]

thats what the grapple is for

[dusk vessel]

Often you can just bait them into exploding and waste no ammo too

[dense pebble]

Best gun the scout has

[dusk vessel]

Depends on situation ofc

[dense pebble]

I tend to shoot first ask questions later

[desert lynx]

exploders are easier to take out in groups

[mellow cradle]

the boomerang doesn't take down high value targets, it just stuns them, you yourself have to put in the effort to kill them

[desert lynx]

I actually don't go for the head because if you can make one blow, the whole swarm goes

[mellow cradle]

yeah

freezeing exploders is more useful if they take you by surprise

and you have nowhere to run

[desert lynx]

so the thing with it is that it seems to have a certain amount of bounces, and if you toss it at one warden with say a grunt next to it the boomerang will bounce between them

and that deals very excellent damage

[dense pebble]

I’ve never used stun sweeper but I also haven’t changed my scout build in ages

[desert lynx]

and since it's entirely independent with a large stash I use it almost like a third gun

[dense pebble]

Its too good to stop using

I do need to try other things at some point though

[mellow cradle]

true, it deals 35 electric damage up to a maximum of 9 times

also has the longest stun in the game

[desert lynx]

just don't toss it at singlet enemies

[mellow cradle]

but it doesn't provide you with a damage bonus on the contrary to cryo nades of ifg, and some enemies are resitant / immune to stuns

[desert lynx]

it's a flat amount of extra net damage, and what I value above dps is net and ammo count

especially in edds

(electrifying reload my beloved)

[mellow cradle]

you don't really need to worry about ammo when playing solo
remember that this conversation started because someone was wanting to do the DD with solo scout

[dense pebble]

I prefer utility on my grenades

With a few exceptions

[desert lynx]

I wasn't here for the conversation :p

[dense pebble]

[desert lynx]

and I do still worry about ammo in solo, especially with scout

well maybe more with gunner than scout but def scout

any huulis this week?

I happen to be low on jadiz

[mellow cradle]

yup

[desert lynx]

stage 1 or further?

[mellow cradle]

I don't remeber that much

but there is one on the DD, and one on the EDD

[desert lynx]

great

wait is this for last week or today

[mellow cradle]

today

[desert lynx]

good

[mellow cradle]

I already played today's dives

[desert lynx]

enor + mag + jadiz

all I need

[mellow cradle]

enor + mag makes any dwarf happy, lol

[desert lynx]

I do have an excess of enor

but I think I just play sandblasted too much

[fathom birch]

just done with EDD

[desert lynx]

any hard cave gen?

or enemy spawn guaranees?

like bet - c n such

[fathom birch]

it's all pretty cool

EDD stage 1 can spawn bulk det